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...Petrosyan's attempts to improve relations with Turkey, still regarded by Armenians as the true historic enemy, have produced few results -- if only < because Ankara wants to avoid offending Azerbaijan, a Turkic-speaking fellow Muslim country. The U.S. has barely begun to address the complexities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, let alone Nagorno-Karabakh. Says former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, an Armenian American: "This is not the first difficult, cold winter for Armenians, but there is an unfortunate sense among the people that they have been abandoned to their fate...
...Russians and finally communist bureaucrats. During 70 years of heavy-handed rule, Soviet administrations made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left a yawning political and spiritual vacuum. Since most of the region's Muslims have predominantly Turkic ethnic roots, the tug is between two versions of the Islamic state: the secular, Westernized Turkey and the radical, anti-Western Iran...
...soon get his wish. Since the Soviet Union collapsed five months ago, more dramatic changes have been taking place in Central Asia than the sheepherder could ever imagine. Freed from control by Moscow, a vast stretch of the Eurasian continent populated by more than 50 million predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking peoples has unfolded to the outside world. The former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan never agitated for the breakup of the union and even served as a passive but powerful prop for the communist regime. Once centralized Soviet control began to split apart, however, they...
...What is going to happen in the former Soviet Union is uncertain, so Turkey's position is more important than before. A new window of opportunity has opened for us with the Turkic republics. They speak our language. ((Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan speak Turkic languages. In Tajikistan the language is akin to Iranian Farsi.)) We are urging them to remain secular and to switch to the Latin alphabet...
...trying to revitalize a Black Sea economic union to include both the Balkans and the new Turkic republics. The republics are raw-material countries. They have virtually no industry. They need technical assistance, advice and investment, plus markets for their raw materials. What I am urgently suggesting is that all the civilized world should set up a Marshall Plan for these Turkic republics to maintain political stability...